Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood of the District Court of Guam has awarded $947,717 to Dave Davis for the costs incurred by Gibson Dunn, CIR and the Election Law Center in his lawsuit against Guam’s unconstitutional race-based plebiscite. Despite objections from Guam’s Attorney General, who argued that Davis should not be reimbursed the cost of attorneys from Washington, D.C., the judges noted that Davis had few other options. Davis initially tried to ...

The Center for Individual Rights recently filed an amicus brief
urging the Supreme Court to hear Perryman v. Romero and act to defend
the First Amendment rights of class action plaintiffs. In Perryman,
class action plaintiffs who were the victims of consumer fraud are challenging
a $12.5 million settlement, the bulk of which—under the legal doctrine of cy
pres—will be dispersed to California universities to research internet
privacy.

The age of online shaming and political correctness isn’t going away. Many people have been “de-platformed” from social media sites, kicked off college campuses, and fired from their jobs for speech. Some of these victims of public shaming are public figures and professional provocateurs. But many are average everyday citizens who were singled out in order to make an example out of them—just like Sal Davi.

On October 25, CIR President Terry Pell helped take the fight for teacher freedom to the Pennsylvania state Legislature. He testified in support of proposed legislation designed to implement the Supreme Court’s decision last summer in Janus v. AFSCME along with former Secretary of Education William Bennett (now Chairman of “Conservative Leaders for Education”) and State Policy Network expert Vincent Vernuccio

Former CIR plaintiff and California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs has told the inside story of her decades long struggle against teachers unions in her new book, Standing Up to Goliath: Battling State and National Teachers’ Unions for the Heart and Soul of Our Kids and Country.

For twenty-eight years, Friedrichs served as a elementary school teacher in California public schools. She’s often told the story of how she first realized the ...

Workers at Dan Gerawan’s third-generation family farm in Fresno, Calif., voted five long years ago to decertify the United Farm Workers. Their ballots were finally counted this week following a tortuous battle that illustrates how liberal government often subjugates individual worker rights to union politics.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overruled a 41-year-old precedent and held that the teachers’ unions and other public-employee labor organizations may not collect fees for collective bargaining from workers who decline to join the union.

The Supreme Court in a sweeping decision Wednesday upended the way public-sector unions do business, ruling that dissenting employees cannot be compelled to pay any dues, and that union members must affirmatively opt into membership — rather than requiring dissenters to opt out.

It’s a big win for Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who petitioned the Supreme Court to review the deal because it directed $5.3 million in unclaimed funds under the cy pres doctrineto third parties, including the alma maters of some of the plaintiffs lawyers, but provided no money to the class.

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is expanding its scrutiny of class actions, announcing Monday it would hear appeals in two separate cases from California that could curb remedies for alleged small harms that corporations caused for large numbers of individuals.